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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1874
Page
1
A scrapbook of quips and lampooning snippets from a Peoria page, parodied debates on women’s rights, nursery songs, a Sunday school anecdote, and a German theory on Satan’s heavenly address. It notes Marie of Russia gifting a portrait and Indian famine aid estimates.
Mark Twain and C Dudley Warner recount a Tennessee emigrant family's first sight of a Mississippi steamboat. The scene blends awe with fear as Uncle Dan'l leads a quaking group in a fervent prayer aboard the log shelter, praying for mercy and protection as the steamer's fiery cough and glare approach.
The article discusses how dreams compress time and space, with mental processes unfolding instantaneously. It cites anecdotes of dream sequences where a person experiences rapid, extended events in moments, and notes examples of dreamtime aligning with real awakening.
In a crusty Frost Breeze Press vignette, Woggles and Mirr Wor gles wrestle a stubborn stove cover while a mirror shows a sly, suggestive exchange. The scene spirals into comic chaos as the fire remains unmoved and tempers flare before the door slams.
A writer notes half of London is hidden beneath the surface with sewers, underground rail, gas lines, telegraph wires, and pneumatic tubes. The city reportedly holds about 2500 miles of drains and a vast cellar covering five and a half acres, plus seven wine vaults spanning twenty miles if connected.
In 1843 at Kaukauna now Kaukauna a Kentucky rifle threefoot long fired by Col Tullar hit a bluebird about a mile away. An Indian spectator asked how he aimed and the Colonel replied right between the eyes. The Indian removed his breechcloth and declared treat him white man whisky as a reaction to the feat.
A drunken passenger caused trouble aboard a car until a kind-hearted reverend doctor intervened and calmed him for the rest of the trip. On leaving, the man glared at others, muttered contempt, then warmly shook the doctor’s hand and said he understood what it means to be drunk.
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